Oatmeal cookies with banana are an interesting option for homemade baking. No need to fiddle with the dough for a long time. Flakes and mashed banana - this is the preparation for the cookies, a substitute for the dough, which remains only to form into small cakes and bake. All other ingredients (sugar, cream or milk, fruits or nuts, eggs) are considered optional and simply enrich products with natural carbohydrates. Variety of cookies is possible with spices or spices - cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger, a pinch of cayenne pepper (for connoisseurs of savory tastes in sweets), citrus fruit zest or ground apricot kernel.
Banana Oatmeal Cookies - General Cooking Principles
You can cook such cookies in the oven on a baking sheet or in a pan on the stove. For this purpose, it is better to cover the baking sheet with paper or foil, and melt a little butter in a pan. Or you can just grease a baking sheet with ordinary vegetable oil.
Take only high-quality oatmeal for recipes of cookies without impurities and particles of unrefined grains. Suitable as a small oatmeal, so large.
Bananas in the recipes will suit both slightly greenish and already blackened. It is easier to roll the dough out of blackened bananas, so I often use them for making oatmeal cookies.
When preparing oatmeal cookies with a banana, it is not necessary to use eggs. The banana itself is used for the dough bundle, but the eggs in this test will give excess moisture.
Wheat or any other flour should not be added to the dough with oatmeal. Although in some cases this advice can be skipped and one or two tablespoons of premium wheat flour can be added to oatmeal. This measure is necessary if you added a component that dilutes the dough - eggs, a lot of liquid honey, milk, cream or vegetable oil.
There are two ways to add chocolate to oatmeal dough. One of them is to melt the pieces with butter in a water bath and mix with the rest of the recipe ingredients. Another is to cut into small pieces or grate chocolate and, in this form, send to oatmeal dough. For the second option, special confectionery chocolate "drops" are perfect - they are the same size and pastries with them look appetizing and presentable.
Banana Oatmeal Cookies - Classic Recipe
Ingredients:
· One glass of oatmeal;
200 g banana
· 2 tbsp. l powdered sugar;
· 2 tbsp. l cream (fat milk or sour cream).
Cooking method:
1. Pour oatmeal with cream and mix.
2. Mash the banana in a separate bowl with mashed potatoes or in any other convenient way and add to the cereal. Pour the icing sugar in there. Mix everything and leave for 10-15 minutes.
3. Turn on the oven at 180 ° C and prepare a baking sheet with low sides. Cover it with baking paper. If you have unused small pieces lying around, take them. It is advisable to grease the paper with some kind of oil.
4. Now wet your hands in cold water and take a tablespoon of a little oatmeal. Use your hands to form a ball, flatten it and place on a baking sheet. So blind all the cookie blanks.
5. Bake them for about half an hour in the oven. If the cookies do not have time to brown, then leave it to bake for another ten minutes. When pulled out, sprinkle with a thin layer of icing sugar if desired.
Oatmeal cookies with banana - with cinnamon and dried fruits
Ingredients:
· A glass of Hercules flakes;
Two egg yolks
· 1 tbsp. l premium wheat flour;
A pinch of ground cinnamon;
One small banana
A handful of prunes;
· a pinch of salt;
A couple of pinches of baking powder.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the prunes (seedless) and pour hot water in the bowl for a few minutes. Then rinse and finely chop with a knife. If you add whole berries to a blender to grind, it will most likely fail. It's all about the harsh consistency of dry prunes. Instead of prunes, it is permissible to take any dried fruit - one variety or a mixture thereof. It is good to combine raisins with dried apricots in cookies.
2. In a blender, grind the banana. Add the yolks and flakes to it. Beat a couple more seconds. Cereals can be milled separately if desired.
3. Inject prunes, flour and cinnamon with salt. Also a baking powder. Mix the mass.
4. Preheat the oven to 180-190˚С.
5. Divide the mixed mass into small pieces. It is convenient to form a pre-dipped in cold water with a specialized ice cream spoon.
6. Place balls on a wide baking sheet at a sufficient distance from each other. Flatten them with your fingers and bake for 30-35 minutes.
7. Let the biscuits cool, then serve them to the table.
Oatmeal cookies with banana and cottage cheese
Ingredients:
100 g of dry oatmeal;
One banana
· 4-5 Art. l cottage cheese;
· One yolk of a chicken egg;
· 2 tbsp. l natural honey (or one quail egg);
1-2 tsp premium wheat flour;
· 2 tbsp. l sesame seeds.
Cooking method:
1. Grind oatmeal in a coffee grinder or blender until it is not a fine grain.
2. Rinse the cottage cheese with a fork or wipe through a sieve. Important - if the curd is grainy, in the recipe take two yolks instead of one. It is also acceptable to use the curd mass.
3. In a bowl, knead a banana with honey and yolk. Add oatmeal to this mixture. More flour and sesame seeds. Knead mass thoroughly.
4. Place the food foil with the frosted side up on the baking sheet.
5. Take the oat-curd mass in small portions and form the future cookie. Place blanks on foil.
6. After warming the oven, place a baking sheet with baking dishes for half an hour.
Oatmeal cookies with banana - with nuts in oil
Ingredients:
· A glass of Hercules flakes;
One banana
A handful of walnuts;
A pinch of vanillin;
· 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
· 4 tbsp. l odorless vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Fill the flakes with oil and leave to soften. Instead of lean, you can take melted butter or finished ghee.
2. Peel the banana and mashed with a fork in mashed potatoes.
3. Fry the walnuts in a dry pan for a couple of minutes. Be sure to stir so that they do not burn. Then cool and slightly exfoliate the dark bitter skin. Chop the nuts with a knife into small crumbs.
4. Stir in the same bowl cereal in oil, nuts, vanilla, sugar and banana. Remember the dough with your hands a little so that the mass is homogeneous. Divide into approximately equal pieces - 30-50 g each. Form flattened balls.
5. Put the blanks on a baking sheet separately from each other and bake in the oven at 200 ° C for 25 minutes.
Oatmeal Cookies with Banana and Orange
Ingredients:
· Half an average orange (or one mandarin);
· 100 g of "Hercules";
One banana
1-2 tsp Sahara;
A pinch of nutmeg;
A pinch of ground ginger;
2 tsp vegetable oil;
· 2 tbsp. l butter.
Cooking method:
1. If the Hercules flakes are large, grind them slightly in a coffee grinder.
2. Squeeze the juice of half an orange and mix with cereal and vegetable oil. Leave to swell for a quarter of an hour. Instead of orange juice, if you wish, you can take any other fruit juice (of your own preparation, freshly pressed or in-store).
3. For now, you can turn on the oven to a standard temperature - 180-200 ° C.
4. Banana puree by any means and mix in the orange-oatmeal mixture. Also add sugar, nutmeg and ginger. Shuffle.
5. Divide the dough into pieces and form small balls. If you want to make cookies small, take the dough with a teaspoon or dessert spoon. Take the workpieces with your fingers to make "cutlets".
6. In a frying pan, heat the butter and spread the cookie blanks. Fry first on one side until golden brown, then turn over and fry further. The main thing - do not make a strong fire, it is better slow. Otherwise, the products will start to burn.
Oatmeal Cookies with Banana and Chocolate
Ingredients:
50 g of chocolate (dark, milk or white - to taste);
A glass of cereal;
One banana
2 tsp butter;
50 g pecans (or cashews).
Cooking method:
1. Pecans do not need preliminary heat treatment, so immediately cut them into pieces with a knife on a cutting board.
2. After cleaning, cut the banana into pieces and mash with a blender.
3. Melt the chocolate and butter in a water bath. You can replace this mixture with cocoa and any vegetable oil (only odorless).
4. Remove from heat. Add banana and nut flakes. Shuffle. When the mass has cooled slightly, form cookies. Do not make them fat. Fold the blanks on a baking sheet. Better cover the surface with baking paper or plain foil.
5. Bake in the oven at 180 ° C until golden brown.
Banana Oatmeal Cookies - Tips & Tricks
· To prevent cookies from being dry, add a little milk, cream or sour cream to the main product - oatmeal.
· Add chopped dried fruit (seedless), berries, ground nuts or seeds (sesame, sunflower or others), slices of candied fruit, fresh fruit, or even grated pumpkin to the cereal in the dough if desired.
· The variant of such cookies is suitable just in the case when the bananas are already completely black and no one will eat them. And in order not to waste them, you can cook such cookies.
